Connected Health

The following Vital Signs presents highlights from our attendance at Health 2.0 in Santa Clara, CA. This meeting is held every fall in the San Francisco area and is considered to be one of the premier events to gage the latest trends in disruptive health IT, particularly related to consumer health and patient engagement. We discuss our perspectives...

Wellness has emerged as a fairly umbrella term within the last 5 years. Factors for this include changing attitudes to control health cost by moving from defined benefit to defined contribution structures, and technology tools and transparencies that are shifting capitation from providers to consumers through increased consumer participation and re...

Beginning October 1, American citizens who do not have health insurance will be eligible to purchase standardized insurance coverage using the new health insurance marketplaces, formally referred to as health insurance exchanges (HIX). This offering will be administered either by their state, federal government, or a combination of both. CMS has re...

This study provides a roadmap for understanding the patient engagement movement and the use of patient portal technology by hospitals and physicians as the essential tool to drive that process. Included is an overview of macro trends in patient engagement and a comprehensive look at key features and functions associated with patient portals. Major ...

The following Vital Signs presents analyst perspectives from our attendance at ACE 2013. The Allscripts Client Experience (ACE) is the companys annual user conference, held this year in Chicago, August 21-23. It offers registrants access to educational sessions, networking opportunities and more. During the event, Allscripts shows clients how to g...

This issue of Vital Signs, released on August 31, 2013, explores the needs of an ever-expanding healthcare IT and interactive domain in a patient-centric model and identifies the criteria for true intelligent systems that are defining new approaches to care, facilitating the gathering and array of health information, including population management...

Digital health is an important area, which is expected to positively drive healthcare transformation and change the experience of all stakeholders in how they interact with technology and engage each other. This market insight presents some interesting points observed at the Digital Health Summer Summit, including the BlueStar announcement from We...

The 2014 rollout of the federal health insurance exchange (HIX) market is set to define some new limits for intrastate and interstate information transparency across insurance providers. Stemming from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the mandate for competitive insurance platforms are possibly the largest and most controversi...

The following market insight discusses Frost & Sullivan telehealth perspectives post ATA 2013. This includes observations and perspectives from the conference, topline survey findings on different issues in telehealth run by Frost & Sullivan, and other national trends centric to the industry.